Does this not work? https://kb.wisc.edu/helpdesk/page.php?id=34624
Select, right click, Detach. On 24 Nov 2017, at 00:39, ann sanfedele <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Alastair, that is what I do too, now - and have been doing for quite a while.. but that puts it in the sent mail folder from me, not in the Inbox... which is where I wan't it. Then I forward my sent mail to my inbox , but then the from is me, not the person who sent it.. ann On 11/23/2017 7:24 PM, Alastair Robertson wrote: If you reply to that email most email programmes will show the text of the original email under your reply. If your does that you can delete the original email and the text will be preserved but the attachment won't. No doubt there are other ways of achieving that outcome - but the above is the strategy I used when space is an issue Alastair On 24 November 2017 at 10:27, ann sanfedele <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I keep ALL my emails, except for junk, of course, but sometimes friends send me attachments that eat up a lot of space or are things I don't want... but I want to keep the email part of the email... is there a way to preserve the mail in my inbox in thunderbird but delete the attachments? someone sent me mp3's of music I can't stand anyway and eat up 8 mgs - but the person who sent them is dear to me so I want to keep that mail T I A ann -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

